Wednesday, May 4, 2011

And they hibernated for a bit....

and they pretended that the cold, cruel world was NOT an imminent REALITY....
and that the RADICAL DEMAGOGUES were perhaps "'at bay'" for the moment...LOL
and they hung onto the concept
that FIERCE SHARKS and SLUTTY MERMAIDS and BLOODY ,VESTAL VIRGINS
 were all dancing and stomping around a bag of bones and gut rot...
and that THE MALIGNANCY was cut out for the moment...
YES..
..THEY PRETENDED....
for the realities were quite the antithesis of the fantasy.....
They ate FALAFEL and HUMMUS in honour of the twisted times....
Strange and POETIC times...
and policemen lined the avenues and the thoroughfares....
blowing their bells and whistles in some delusional stab at POWER....
The rain swept down upon them in sheets of torrential debauchery....
and they looked for GOD EVERYWHERE....
Where was HE hiding on this strange day ?

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